"It's going to be really big once it comes down to districts," Carne said of the Cowboys having a strong fifth runner. "Because it's all in the grouping. If you have a top four, but our fifth guy is kind of way out then your chances go down quite a bit to go to state."

Also running in the varsity race for the Cowboys were Austin Strong, who placed 120th with a time of 21:10.87, and Daniel Olson, who was 123rd in 21:54.85.

Although he ran in the JV race, Xavier Layne also had a solid race, finishing with a time of 20:33.24 to move up to the Cowboy varsity squad for the next race.

Other Cowboys competing in the JV race included Gabe Rothenbucher, 23:37.83, and Azuriah Becker, 24:46.54.

Ahsland's Reed Pryor won the race with a time of 15:56.06. Bend's Bennet Jackson finished second with a time of 16:08.23.

Summit packed their runners together in a tight pack to take the team title, scoring 66 points to 84 for Ashland. Ridgevue, Idaho, finished in third with 84 points, while Sisters was fourth, 144, and Crook County fifth with 152 points.

Rounding out the top 10 were South Medford, 161, Bend, 165, Mountain View, 193, North Medford, 203, and Klamath Union, 234.

The girls race was also won by Summit, which had a nearly perfect score.

The Storm finished in five of the top seven places as they scored just 16 points as a team.

Bend was a distant second with 95 points, while North Medford was third, 137, Cleveland fourth, 155, South Medford fifth, 195, Mountain View sixth, 197, and the Cowgirls seventh, 214. Rounding out the top 10 were Ashland, 224, Klamath Union, 253 and Sisters, 274.

Summit's Fiona Max easily won the girls race with a time of 18:00.63. Teammate Teaghan Knox was second in 18:20.38, while Ridgeviue's Alexia Corona was third in 18:36.95.

Crook County was led by senior Jan Carne, who placed 16th overall with a time of 20:16.72.

Freshman Savannah Jessee was next in for the Cowgirls, placing 29th with a time of 21:18.36.

"I feel like I did really good," Jessee said. "I have never raced against people this good and it was amazing. I'm pretty pleased with how the team did. We have all trained really hard together and it's nice to have them all run so close to each other. It was just a great day and I'm really happy that God blessed me with this race and this opportunity."

Running third for the Cowgirls was sophomore McCall Woodward, who finished in 46th place with a time of 21:54.71.

Rounding out the scoring for the Cowgirls were Kelcie Ames, 68th in 22:50.58, and Lindsey Mode, 69th with a time of 22:55.76.

"If you look at the girls' times we had basically seven girls all right there together," Coats said. "They ran really good. I'm happy with all of them, but Kelcie ran really well today."

Also running in the varsity race for Crook County were Kennedy Larson, who finished in 76th place with a time of 23:15.63, and Maggie Ramoss, who placed 84th with a time of 23:35.59.